Creator

Adolph Occo II

Creation-date

ca. 1540

Technique

Relief carving

Material

Wood

Inventory number

Inv. 5389

Subject-1

Adolph Occo II

Object-Current-Location

Berlin, Bode Museum

Digital resource author

GrECI Project

Digital-resource-rights holder

University of Oslo (for GrECI project)

Image-number

036_Id_11

License

CC BY

Description

The medal shows a portrait of Adolph Occo II, a physician from Augsburg, holding a book inscribed in Greek as "The divine Homer". A second Greek inscription surrounding the portrait quotes Ps 54 (55), 23 ("Cast your care on the Lord, and he shall sustain you"). The Latin inscription around the edge alludes to the Hippocratic Oath (30-32). The object illustrates the integration of different Greek traditions into a multifaceted identity, encompassing medical expertise, humanist learning and devout Christianity.